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Need for change : towards the new international economic order : a selection from major speeches and reports with an introduction

Need for Change: Towards the New International Economic Order represents a selection of speeches given during the period 1974 to early 1980. The speeches are grouped in terms of broad phases or periods in the development of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) work. In most cases they are transcripts from oral presentations and are reproduced more or less as delivered. The volume is organized into five parts. Part I discusses the background against which the specific activities of UNCTAD were being fashioned. Part II presents a diagnosis of the weaknesses besetting.Read more...

Front Cover; Need for Change: Towards the New International Economic Order; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: An Overview; Part II: The Post-War International Economic System in Crisis; Chapter 1. Ad hoc Committee of the Sixth Special Session of the General Assembly, 15 April 1974; Chapter 2. Trade and Development Board, 10 March 1975; Chapter 3. Report to UNCTAD IV, May 1976; Chapter 4. Report to UNCTAD V, May 1979; Part III: Restructuring the International Framework; Section 1: April 1974 to May 1976: Seeking a Mandate to Negotiate. Chapter 5. United Nations Economic and Social Council, 9 July 1974Chapter 6. United Nations Economic and Social Council, November 1974; Chapter 7. International Seminar of the International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations (ISMUN), 26 September 1974; Chapter 8. Trade and Development Board on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of UNCTAD, 28 August 1974; Chapter 9. Institute of Foreign Trade, Moscow, 20 May 1975; Chapter 10. Trade and Development Board, 8 March 1976; Section 2: June 1976 to May 1979: Exercising the Mandate. Chapter 11. United Nations Economic and Social Council, 21 July 1976Chapter 12. Sri Lankan Association for the Advancement of Science, 21 August 1976; Chapter 13. Trade and Development Board, 25 April 1977; Chapter 14. Asian Theological Conference, 14 January 1979; Chapter 15. Trade and Development Board, 20 March 1979; Chapter 16. Report to UNCTAD V, May 1979; Section 3: June 1979 to the Present Day: Towards a New International Development Strategy; Chapter 17. United Nations Economic and Social Council, 6 July 1979; Chapter 18. Trade and Development Board, 8 October 1979. Part IV: Sectoral IssuesSection 1: Commodities; A. The Progress of Negotiations and the Common Fund; Chapter 19. Conference of Developing Countries on Raw Materials, Dakar, 4 February 1975; Chapter 20. Committee on Commodities, 8 December 1975; Chapter 21. Preparatory Meeting for the Negotiation of a Common Fund, 29 November 1976; Chapter 22. United Nations Negotiating Conference on a Common Fund under the Integrated Programme for Commodities, 7 March 1977; Chapter 23. Ad hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Integrated Programme for Commodities, 11 July 1977. Chapter 24. Ad hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Integrated Programme for Commodities, 10 July 1978Chapter 25. United Nations Negotiating Conference on a Common Fund under the Integrated Programme for Commodities, 14 November 1978; B. Individual Commodities; Chapter 26. United Nations Cocoa Conference, 22 September 1975; Chapter 27. International Tin Council, 1 July 1976; Chapter 28. Preparatory Meeting on Copper, 27 September 1976; Chapter 29. Preparatory Meeting on Jute, Kenaf and Allied Fibres, 25 October 1976; Chapter 30. United Nations Sugar Conference, 18 April 1977.

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by Gamani Corea.

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Need for Change: Towards the New International Economic Order represents a selection of speeches given during the period 1974 to early 1980. The speeches are grouped in terms of broad phases or periods in the development of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) work. In most cases they are transcripts from oral presentations and are reproduced more or less as delivered. The volume is organized into five parts. Part I discusses the background against which the specific activities of UNCTAD were being fashioned. Part II presents a diagnosis of the weaknesses besetting.